My website just went offline due to godaddy dns going down.

https://twitter.com/GoDaddy/status/245213898683318272
http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/10/godadd ... -of-sites/

Time to switch to linode for dns I think.

http://library.linode.com/dns-guides/co ... de-manager

Wish I'd switched earlier. It's been four hours since it went down and it's still not back up.

It still puzzles me how the *whole* of godaddy went down for 4 hrs and counting. No resiliency whatsoever?

You can't switch when their website is down, huh?

Lol. indeed. Their website appears to be down but their domain is up with a dummy homepage. So clearly their own dns is still working whether self managed or otherwise!

Even their WHOIS server is down (I'm unable to get a full WHOIS record for domains registered through them). Several services (including asana.com) are not responding due to Godaddy's DNS being unresponsive.

I switched to Namecheap during the GoDaddy elephant scandal, and the SOPA thing only made me more smug...er. Even with Namecheap I have my DNS hosted with Linode, though, because Linode's DNS:

• updates literally ten times faster
• The DNS control UI is more sensibly laid out
• hasn't gone down twice per year like GoDaddy did
• Sends me a free pie every Christmas*

The only downside to Linode's DNS is that, well, they will only point a TLD at a Linode IP. It's perfectly acceptable to point subdomains off-network, though, so the Minecraft and After the Deadline servers on my LAN can face the Internet properly!

*this is unfortunately a lie

Not quite sure I understand this one. You can point your bare domain to any IP - it doesn't nee to be a Linode IP.

-Chris

Errm, yeah, we've even done this on occasion. Our linode was down for maintenance so we pointed our TLD to a "down for maintenance" page on a non-linode server.

Hm, I know I tried to use Linode DNS with a crap discount VPS and it didn't work. Maybe initial setup has to be against a Linode IP?

Edit: Looking at the UI, initial setup gives you a dropdown of your Linode IPs but it looks like I could probably create a blank record and fill it out however I liked. Good to know, though I just this week rolled all my cheapo-server operations into a new Linode 512

I switched immediately when I switched servers here. Linode doesn't charge you for unlimited entries the way GoDaddy does.

100 entries seems like a lot, except I need a lot for Sturmkrieg.com, which is the general purpose, non language specific domain name. I also have a corresponding sturmkrieg.com domain alias for each sturmkrieg.cctld. (40k.en.sturmkrieg.com, 40k.sturmkrieg.us, http://www.sturmkrieg.de, de.sturmkrieg.com)

Most of those websites haven't yet been reestablished since the server move.

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